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A common refrain from 3Ls and 4Es around our school is: “Get me out of here.” It’s hard overstate how done with law school I feel these days… As I’m sure many of my classmates do.
So, I’ve been contemplating motivation lately. Not really eager to find it, mind you. But contemplating it, nonetheless.
Something that Butler coach Brad Stevens discussed in a radio interview before the NCAA championship game on Monday has stuck with me this week. I can’t find the transcript, but he was asked whether he thinks about how he’d feel if Butler beat UConn for the championship. His response was basically: No. All I care about is the next play. And we work hard to focus on that possession, that shot, that quarter. So the idea is do the right thing in the moment, and keep doing it. The results will take care of themselves.
I like this idea, because I suspect that at least a part of my exhaustion with law school is feeling significantly overwhelmed at the thought of the bar exam.
The idea that, in Coach John Wooden’s words, “little things make bit things happen” is a nice motivating idea for me this week. Today, I need to do 3 things for law school. I’ll do them well and move to what I need to do tomorrow…. until July 28th, when I’ll be done and hopefully just two-and-a-half months away from hearing that I’ve passed the bar exam.
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We’re ahead of the curve here at Fight The Hypo.
More than three years ago, we suggested that a more sensible approach to ranking law schools would be to focus on value. Dr. Bombay proposed a ranking system that calculated value based on the relationship between average debt load and average starting salary. The result was:
Well, U.S. News finally listened to us, having yesterday released its rankings of the “10 Law Degrees With Most Financial Value at Graduation.” Unless we’ve missed something (that’s certainly possible), this is the first time U.S. News has posted this ranking.
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Catholic University law school rose 19 places in this year’s US News rankings to #79. A few thoughts…
The rankings still appear as easy to game as they were last year, and every year prior. And they still make no effort to provide a ranking of value – expected/average earnings over cost or some such calculation. While I’m glad that my law school is moving up the rankings I still think the rankings, as a whole, do a disservice to those who most rely on them – prospective law students. This group continues to get an incomplete picture of what prospects law school really offers and what it really costs. If law school is viewed as a contract — and it is, of a kind — then prospective law students deserve better access to information that will enable them to shape their expectations to what is “reasonable” given the market conditions, the law school’s merits, and the real cost. This is not to say such data isn’t available. It is. My point is simply that it should be as available as the US News rankings.
That said, if we accept the rankings for what they are, this is a big deal for our school. Our school’s news release tries to explain the rise:
An improvement in the law school’s peer assessment among members of the bench and bar, as well as improved median LSAT scores and an increase in the number of members of the Class of 2010 employed at graduation, appeared to favorably affect the 2012 tabulations.
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